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Author: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 0896299139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: von Braun, Joachim
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 0896299147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past several years the changing world energy situation has generated intensive discussion about biofuels, much of it promising a source of environment-friendly energy that would also be a boon to the world’s farmers. At the same time skeptics argue that biofuel production will threaten food supplies for the poor and fail to achieve the environmental benefits claimed. The conclusion of this essay is that in order to make a difference in the lives of poor people as both energy producers and consumers, and to make strong environmental and economic contributions, biofuel technology needs further advancement, and investments and policies facilitating agricultural innovation and trade will have to be considered.
Author: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0198799284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men
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Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9789221194897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how, within a decent work perspective, countries can develop their skills base so as to increase both the quantity and the productivity of labour employed in the economy.
Author: Michael O. Daramola
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 3030380327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the most up-to-date technologies for the transformation of biomass into valuable fuels, chemicals, materials, and products. It provides comprehensive coverage of the characterization and fractionation of various types of biomass and details the many challenges that are currently encountered during this process. Divided into two sections, this book discusses timely topics such as the characterization of biomass feedstock, pretreatment and fractionation of biomass, and describes the process for conversion of biomass to value-added commodities. The authors bring biomass transformational strategies that are yet to be explored to the forefront, making this innovative book useful for graduate students and researchers in academia, government, and industry.
Author: International Food Policy Research Institute
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arvind Kumar
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2022-02-16
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 0128156910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEcosystem-Based Adaptation: Approaches to Sustainable Management of Aquatic Resources presents a close examination of the role of ecosystem-based adaptation in managing river basins, aquifers, flood plains and their vegetation to provide water storage and flood regulation. Furthermore, the book explores improved ecosystem-based services for managing floods, conservation of water and its resources (including watersheds), avoiding water scarcity, and ensuring long-term water security planning, all in the context of sustainable development goals. This book will help scientists pave the way for easy implementation of sustainable development goals, ensuring a secure and sustainable future. - Presents information in an easy-to-follow manner using tables, figures and graphs where applicable, along with case studies from all continents - Provides a reference for experts to use as an authoritative source to support environmental action and regulation - Delineates the role of ecosystem-based adaptation in sustainable management and in the restoration of watershed forests and wetlands
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Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 738
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nazia Mintz-Habib
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1317914120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world. One response to the challenges of climate change and energy supply has been the development of crops to be used for biofuels. But, as this book shows, this can divert agricultural land from food production to energy crops, thus affecting food security, particularly in less developed countries. The author analyses the extent to which biofuels feedstocks fit within the national food security strategy, agro-export orientation, and rural development plans and policies of developing economies. Two case studies, from Tanzania in East Africa and Borneo in Malaysia, are considered in detail, using the non-edible crop of jatropha as an example of how compromises can be reached to balance food and energy goals as well as export markets. The author develops a novel integrated approach, the Institutional Feasibility Study, as the basis of her analysis. She addresses key issues such as: how do global initiatives for green growth, energy security and sustainable development incorporate biofuels industry development? Does global biofuels trade present meaningful foreign and local investment opportunities for developing countries? To what extent does biofuels feedstock production help with poverty reduction and agricultural sector modernization? What role do the EU and the US commitments to biofuels blending targets play in the rapid industry development in developing countries? How does the biofuels industry fit within existing formal and informal institutional frameworks? Who are the winners and losers in the biofuels global value chain?
Author: Brian Thompson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-04-23
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9400701101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate changes will affect food production in a number of ways. Crop yields, aquatic populations and forest productivity will decline, invasive insect and plant species will proliferate and desertification, soil salinization and water stress will increase. Each of these impacts will decrease food and nutrition security, primarily by reducing access to and availability of food, and also by increasing the risk of infectious disease. Although increased biofuel demand has the potential to increase incomes among producers, it can also negatively affect food and nutrition security. Land used for cultivating food crops may be diverted to biofuel production, creating food shortages and raising prices. Accelerations in unregulated or poorly regulated foreign direct investment, deforestation and unsustainable use of chemical fertilizers may also result. Biofuel production may reduce women’s control of resources, which may in turn reduce the quality of household diets. Each of these effects increases risk of poor food and nutrition security, either through decreased physical availability of food, decreased purchasing power, or increased risk of disease. The Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition articulates the links between current environmental issues and food and nutrition security. It provides a unique collection of nutrition statistics, climate change projections, biofuel scenarios and food security information under one cover which will be of interest to policymakers, academia, agronomists, food and nutrition security planners, programme implementers, health workers and all those concerned about the current challenges of climate change, energy production, hunger and malnutrition.
